Wind of change: Katherine Bryan tests the boundaries
Katherine Bryan is best known to us as the flamboyant principal flute of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. She was just 21 when appointed ten years ago, direct from her studies at the Julliard School in New York. Before that she had been a pupil at Cheethams School in Manchester and three times finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, so it was clear even then that she was a cut above the ordinary.
It was no surprise, either, to learn a couple of years ago that Bryan had cut her debut disc as a soloist on the prestigious Scots-based Linn label – a superlative collection of performances including the flute concertos of American composer Lowell Liebermann and Carl Nielsen, in which she was joined by her RSNO colleagues and conductor Paul Daniel.
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